Tarangan is one of the
Aru languages, spoken by inhabitants of the
Aru Islands
The Aru Islands Regency ( id, Kabupaten Kepulauan Aru) is a group of about 95 low-lying islands in the Maluku Islands of eastern Indonesia. It also forms a regency of Maluku Province, with a land area of . At the 2011 Census the Regency had a ...
in eastern
Indonesia
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. There are two "Tarangan" varieties: East and West Tarangan. These varieties are divergent, perhaps no closer than they are to
Manombai, also spoken in the Arus. West Tarangan is a trade language of the southern islands.
Phonology
The following is the description for West Tarangan:
Consonants
* /k/ can occur as a glottal intervocalically between two non-high vowels.
* /ɸ/ is heard as a stop syllable-final position.
* /w j/ are heard as voiced stops
in word-initial position and within a stressed noninitial syllable onset.
Vowels
* /a i/ in unstressed positions are heard as
* Sounds /e o/ are phonetically
̝ o̝
References
Aru languages
Languages of Indonesia
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